Well this must be a sign. With the large portion of help that Stu Gott has given, we have been able to get the appliance ready for some serious testing. This means that rpath Marketing have put the Bongo appliance on the appliance spotlight section of the rPath Rbuilder website. What this means is that when you connect …

I have recently been preparing to migrate my accounts running on other mail systems to Bongo as soon as we have Bongo 1. The movement of mail from any system to Bongo was my biggest worry as my account alone had 3700+ emails in 350+ folders. I decided after a lengthy web search to use IMAP to migrate the mail. I will …

Ok.. So I have not blogged for some time and there is a valid reason for this, actually there are two reasons. The first is that I am a new dad and this comes with quite a few challenges and tasks which has taken me away from doing my Bongo stuff. The second is that I have not had anything to report on. I have been …

Well I have just returned from a long drive to Bristol (2h30 one way). I wrote my Prince 2 foundation exam today and passed. I was supposed to write it last week thursday but my daughter decided to be born 3 weeks early. (thanks Andy for the blog) Why am I telling you this and what has this to do with bongo? I will now …

Well I have eventually started down the rpath route. The documentation is very difficult to pick up and I have had a hard time working things out. The #conary irc channel has been a great help to me on my path as it were. I have been able to get bongo to compile on the rpath platform but I am having trouble with the …

I have fixed the broken VM Thank you to all those who have downloaded the vm and are seeding it. I must apologize to you as the VM that I sent out was borked. I have successfully rebuilt the vm and it no longer has the version name in the vm name as I thought that once it has been downloaded all the people have to do …

The Bongo-Project Vmware image is now complete I have been able to create an image that will allow Bongo to be evaluated and tested. I have put the torrent file on my web server the address is http://torrent.haigmail.com As I create new files or downloads I will add them to the list on this server. Please download the …

Back in business I have been taking time to study for a certification exam. I have now finished this and can dedicate more time to Bongo. My next two projects are to see how to create the bongo torrent again and also to work on some suggestions made about the BongoDemo Virtual Machine So that is the aim

I have now created the Bongo demo virtual machine. I was going to use an rpath installation but that has proved to much for me to take on board at the moment. I will look into that at a later date. I have also created a torrent file and website for the Bongo demo server, I just need Alex to approve the site and also …

I thought I would start by explaining how I came to be using Bongo I started using Bongo when it was still called NIMS and was part of the beta test on that one. When it was released I bought a red box version and installed it on a server that I was hosting on my broadband at home. I only had a 5 user license then and …